It's no secret that the MSROI team firmly believes that email remains a core channel for digital marketing. Furthermore, most email marketing platforms now provide a ton of data and feedback, theoretically making it easy to track your email marketing successes and failures. The tough part is determining how to properly read these numbers: which numbers [...]
What is one of the most effective tools for strengthening your relationship with prospects and customers so that you increase retention, repeat sales, and referrals? The answer may come as a surprise... It's email marketing. To clarify, I'm talking about email marketing to your own "house" list of prospects and customers, not to a list [...]
Love it or hate it, email remains a core channel for digital marketing. In fact, email consistently has the highest return-on-investment when compared to other outbound digital channels. Developing a strong and smart email marketing program is a surefire way to strengthen your business long term. Though email has been around for a long time, [...]
In a 2014 column by the late New York Times columnist David Carr, tech CEO Jason Hirschorn was quoted saying, “Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons — it’s the cockroach of the Internet.” Hirschorn was correct. In fact, email marketing and email newsletters have experienced a triumphant resurgence [...]
One of the most valuable aspects of SEO strategy is its ability to influence how a business interacts with its customers, products and marketplace. All businesses have intuitions about their business landscape but SEO forces every business to test these intuitions against the hard reality of search data. Through keyword research, you can confirm if your [...]
Spending valuable time and resources on Google Analytics is only worth it if you’re able to gleam actionable information. The goal is to find data that illuminates hidden aspects of your business and provides a basis by which to make strategic choices. This is particularly relevant for marketing strategy since Google Analytics can quickly show [...]
The new interface is finally here, and I’ve been lucky enough to test the Beta version out. Google recently stated it will be rolled out to every advertiser by the end of 2017. The reason for the change was to “make the platform faster and easier to use than the current version.” In this article, [...]
Google Analytics has an intimidating name. Just the word analytics implies difficult math and time consuming statistics, a connotation scary enough to frighten away many small business owners. Furthermore, Google Analytics is plagued by other intimidating myths such as a difficult setup process, an overwhelming interface or expensive analysis. In reality, using Google Analytics is [...]
Small business owners are always trying to gain insights about their customers. And why not? The key to making a sale is knowing who's most likely to buy. That said, it's unrealistic to survey everyone who walks through your door or visits your website -- but with Google Analytics, you don't have to. Google Analytics [...]
One of the most frequently asked questions I receive when I'm presenting a SEO training is, "How do I safely and effectively get links to my website?" In this article, I'll walk through 5 tactics any business can use to get more links, and in turn, improve their search engine rankings. But first, let's address why [...]
